The Five Levels of Healing According to Dietrich Klinghardt MD PhD
Patricia Lemer MEd NCC describes the five levels of healing from autism and other chronic health conditions according...
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Autism Therapy Checklist
Therapy is a critical piece of healing a child with autism, and we have created an autism therapy checklist to help...
Developing a Biomedical Plan for Your Child with Autism
If your child has autism or another neurodevelopmental disorder such as ADHD or Sensory Processing Disorder, it can be...
Nutrition Fundamentals for Autism
Post contributed by Vicki Kobliner MS RD, CD-N, Registered Dietitian and owner of Holcare Nutrition. Mention the words...
Anesthesia and Autism
Parent advocate Alyssa Davi explains the risks of anesthesia and autism in this article. The purpose of this article...
Mindfulness in Autism
Why is mindfulness in autism the most important thing you can do for your child? The autism journey is not for the...
Sensory Integration Dysfunction and Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
If any sense is inefficient, the integration process can be disrupted, and Sensory Integration Dysfunction (SID) - a...
Sensory Diet
A sensory diet can help many individuals with autism, whose sensory processing is compromised, because they may find...
Preventing Sensory Processing Disorder in High-Risk Infants
Kelly Dorfman, MS, LDN discusses how a good neurological diet and healing the gut may stave off Sensory Processing...
Undiagnosed Lyme Disease
Nika Hamblin relates her personal story of dealing with undiagnosed Lyme disease in this post. Many years ago, my...
Magnesium: The Super-Mineral
Magnesium is perhaps one of the most necessary minerals for healing and recovery. Here's a short list of its benefits;...
Vitamin D Deficiency
Increasing amounts of research (see Sources & References, below) point to a vitamin D deficiency as being linked...
Prism Lenses
The use of prism lenses for behavioral and learning problems goes back to the 1970’s when optometric pioneers began...
Learning-Related Vision Problems
An estimated 25% of school-age children have learning-related vision problems. Students can have difficulties in any...
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT): Healing the Gut and Brain
Have You Heard About Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)? HBOT is a powerful, safe, non-invasive alternative to...
How Nutrition Affects Hypotonia
Many children with developmental delays have low muscle tone, or hypotonia, because external factors that impact the...
Homeopathic Sound Healing Remedies
Homeopathic color and sound healing remedies create inner balance and stability by activating an individual’s energy...
HANDLE Therapy for Autism and ADHD
Marlene Suliteanu, OTR, and Judith Bluestone, neurodevelopmental/educational therapist, discuss the history and...
Flame Retardants: A Threat to Our Children‘s Development?
Patricia Lemer, M. Ed., NCC, discusses the danger of flame retardants to a child's neurological and endocrine...
Why Is Digestion Important?
Understanding the process of digestion is necessary before understanding what goes wrong in children with chronic...
What’s for Breakfast?
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! We’ve all heard that maxim. Manage Glucose Levels What is a “good”...
9 Easy Ways to Create a Healthy Home
Good health starts in a healthy home, but toxins in the everyday products you use in your home can negatively impact...
Vision Affects Behavior
Difficult behaviors can potentially be changed by improving vision, but most people don’t know that vision affects...
Lyme Disease in Children
by Maria Rickert Hong, CHHC, AADP This article addresses the symptoms, causes, testing and standard and alternative...
What is Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)?
“EMDR induces a fundamental change in brain circuitry similar to what happens in REM sleep — that allows the person...
The Best Dyspraxia Program Ever
by Kelly Dorfman, MS, LND Children with developmental delays demonstrate varying degrees of difficulty with motor...
The Autism Exchange
The Autism Exchange (AEX) is a fast, user-friendly website that takes frustration out of internet searches. Their...
Sound-Based Therapies
This excerpt is provided with permission from the book "Outsmarting Autism: The Ultimate Guide to Management, Healing...
BioAcoustics
This excerpt is taken with permission from Envisioning a Bright Future: Interventions That Work for Children and...
Before Autism, After Autism
by Stephanie Kodeck Everyone’s familiar with the eras BC and AD. In my life, I’ve lived in two different eras - BA and...
The Importance of Soil Microbes
by Maria Rickert Hong, CHHC, AADP Kids who live and work on farms have far less allergies, asthma and autoimmune...
Digestive Enzymes
by Kelly Dorfman, MS, LND Children diagnosed with developmental delays have a high rate of digestive pathology....
Oral Sensory Motor Therapy for Autism
by Theresha A. Szypulski, MA, CCC-SLP Families of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) list communication...
Immune System and Nervous System
by Kelly Dorfman, MS, LND During the summer, life has gotten better for most parents of a child on the autistic...
Brain Gym and Sensory Integration
Mary Rentschler, MEd, Brain Gym consultant and instructor, discusses how Brain Gym can be helpful for sensory...
Nonverbal Learning Disability
by Patricia S. Lemer, M. Ed., Chairman of the Board What Is a Nonverbal Learning Disability? First appearing in the...
Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Autism
Kelly Dorfman, MS, LND writes about nutritional interventions for children with mitochondrial dysfunction and autism....
Autism Bike Riding Help
by Bert Richards, PTA and Gin Utermohlen, PT "Let's all go for a bike ride" ...a simple suggestion you are not likely...
Schizophrenia and Nutrition
by Patricia S. Lemer, M.Ed., NCC, M.S. Bus. A friend in Pittsburgh was astonished when I suggested that Epidemic...
Mercury Amalgam Toxicity
Adapted from information provided by National Integrative Health Associates (NIHA) in Washington, D.C. In Lewis...
Bal-A-Vis-X
Adapted from Bal-A-Vis-X by Bill Hubert Imagine a room full of eager 7th graders in pairs all performing the same...
Autism Play
by Rebecca Klaw, M.S., M.Ed. As every reader knows, the child at play is not idle or aimless, boring or bored, or...
Developmental Delays Interventions and Balance
All living things strive for balance. Healthy organisms manifest balance by being flexible, never static. As day...